I have a theory that players who have home games at coors field suffer MASSIVE drops in road numbers Examples include Juan Pierre(Gained 50 points on his road average after leaving colorado) Joe Girardi, Ellis Burks, Walt Weiss, Jeff Cirrillo, in fact this last year was an aberration for the team to hit .260 on the road it is usually closer to .245-.250 range.
Eric Young had similar overall numbers with the Cubs as he had with the Rockies but had MUCH better road numbers and most every other example I can find with few exceptions(Castilla, Burnitz) have similar hitting numbers overall but much better road numbers.

The reason I write this is that I have read a lot of people saying Matt Holliday isn’t worth 100 million in a market where JD Drew gets 65. What do you all think???

Well now the question is do the Col. players have trouble once they are not in Coors Field and I think so Al you see Denver is 1 mile High and it looks like the ball is coming off the top of a monster truck when it leafs the pitchers hand only then you have to try and hit at See level and most guys look like they are Sub Mariners in comparison. That is why you saw the Rockies do so weall in the Nat. League last year but they could not win in Fenway Park which is built on Land Fill.

There’s a pretty well-documented “hangover effect” for Rockies hitters. In short, playing half of one’s games at Coors Field not only results in improved home stats (that is, of course, expected); it also depresses road stats. What causes this? Well, nobody really knows. Some theorize that because pitches don’t break as much at altitude hitters lose their ability to handle “normal” breaking balls. I tend to think that Coors has traditionally rewarded some “bad habits”—a slight uppercut swing, etc, and that these bad habits tend to depress performance when a player hits the road.

If this was a one time thing I would think it didn’t mean much but it seems that with very few exceptions players that leave Colorado have lower home but much higher road numbers making your point very well